Standing Room Only, in which the author visits Chicago's best seatless eateries. Have at it, Nick. Previously on SRO Italian Beef at Chickie's Jimmy's Red Hots I must have walked by Cafe Marianao a few dozen times in the past year, and never has it seemed like a place I should visit. Chicago is not exactly known for its Cuban cuisine, and I've been much more focused on the outstanding Mexican restaurants in the area, including Taqueria Moran (oh, its abodabo!). I actually found out about Marianao thanks to a post on LTH Forum, about the ways to deal with the seemingly endless line there (among the forum's unsurprising findings: be an astoundingly gorgeous female). And though I do not...
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